Yellow Champion

Yellow Line Champion Deathstorm Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Blood of Azog, U30.2

Trait Trees

I use 2 different Trait Trees for Yellow Line, depending on the fight/scenario.

This Tree I use for pretty much all Instances/Raids. This gives me the Max AoE DPS, and great Single-target DPS utility from Red Line.

Next, my second Tree is more for Landscape or power-leveling someone in Warg Pens/Sword Halls, as I trait for Killing Spree, which restores 10% morale on every mob killing blow.

Use these Trees depending on what you are doing.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Points Build for Beginners

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. You can play around with these to get the numbers you want, but I would not recommend using any Mits virtues (apart from Fidelity) as you don’t gain much from them. You can swap around, depending on the fight, can swap in more Morale ones in for example, Honour for Determination, it just depends on the fight.

By using these Virtues, I reach my Stat Goals, while still maintaining a good Morale pool.

1. Valour (Best DPS virtue for Physical classes)
2. Zeal (Best DPS virtue for Might classes)
3. Confidence (Best Critical Rating virtue for all classes)
4. Loyalty (Great for Morale all classes)
5. Determination (Decent DPS virtue for Might classes) (Usually my number 5 is placeholder, I swap this one a lot depending on the fight)

Legendary Items

These are a bit tricky, especially for Champs. To cut a long story short, you need 3 LIs for Yellow Line. My Dual-wield Swords are shared with Red Line also, to keep things simple. But, you need a separate 2-Hander LI just for Yellow Line, and you need a seperate LI Rune for Yellow Line also. Here is my setup for Yellow Line.

These are the LIs I use, and how, which I will explain in Rotation Section:

1-Hander Weapon

* * This is the same 1-hander Weapon shared from Red Line.

Type	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Area of Effect Skill Damage
Major	Critical Damage Multiplier
Major	Ferocious Strikes Cooldown and Ferocious Strikes Damage
Major	Relentless/Remorseless Strikes Damage
Major	Rend Bleed Damage
Major	Wild Attack Damage
Minor	Battle Frenzy Cooldown and Battle Frenzy Physical Mastery

Relics:

2-Hander Weapon (Hybrid Yellow)

Type	Post-Imbued Legacy	Notes
Major	Area of Effect Skill Damage
Major	Brutal Strikes Damage
Major	Critical Damage Multiplier
Major	Ferocious Strikes Cooldown and Ferocious Strikes Damage
Major	Rend Bleed Damage
Minor	Battle Frenzy Cooldown and Battle Frenzy Physical Mastery
Minor	Rend Armour Reduction	This Weapon is used to apply Rend debuff

Relics:

Champion’s Rune (Class Item) [Yellow Line]

Type	Post-Imbued Legacy
Major	Blade Line AoE Power Cost and AoE Skill Critical Damage
Major	Blade Wall Damage
Major	Champion’s Horn Stun Duration and Horn of Gondor Physical Mitigation Debuff
Minor	Exchange of Blows Melee Damage
Minor	Fury of Blades Damage from Fervour
Minor	Raging Blade Damage
Minor	Swift Strike/Swift Blade Power Cost and Swift Strike Damage / Legacy of Vitality

Relics:

Swap Legendary Items

I use 2 Swap LIs on Champ.

1. Weapon is used as a swap for the following skills:
   • Sprint Duration
   • Fear Nothing Cooldown
   • Hamstring Duration
2. Rune is used as a swap for:
   • Great Cleave Duration (This adds 10s to a 30s buff, making the 25% AoE damage boost last 40s)
3. Added a Mounted Combat Bridle LI for reference too.

Rotation

Here is what I do on Yellow Champ:

1. To begin, I would recommend you Hotkey/Keybind your Dual-wield weapons and 2-Hander.
2. There are certain skills you want to hit with certain weapons. These are:
   1. Wild Attack, Blade-wall, Raging Blades, Fury of Blades, Blade Storm, Feral Strikes (Only for corruptions) only to be used from Dual-wield.
   2. Rend, Ferocious Strikes, Brutal Strikes, Swift Blade, only to be used from a 2-Hander.
3. Start your rotation with Wild Attack to get your 5% crit chance up. If it doesn’t crit, don’t stop, just keep rotation going, use Wild Attack again soon to get that buff up.
4. After WA, use Rend to debuff your target(s) and for an AoE bleed on all.
5. Now that your WA buff is up, and your target(s) are debuffed, now it’s time to start using spenders. (If your tank has lined up all the mobs, use cooldowns such as Great Cleave/Heroics/Controlled Burn)
6. Start with Horn of Gondor – Battle Frenzy – Fury of Blades – Swift Blade – Raging Blades-Clobber – Blade Wall. These are your spenders and big hitters.
7. When those are on Cooldown, keep Wild Attack crit chance up (It lasts for 10s and it helps if you can track it via a plugin)
8. Now that all your AoE skills are on cooldown, and you have refreshed your WA buff, now it’s time to swap to 2-hander and start using some Single-target damage skills.
9. You can use a combo of Ferocious-Clobber-Brutal. Once that is done, refresh Rend while with 2-hander equipped and swap back to Dual Wield and repeat the AoE rotation again (number 3 on the list here)
10. Mostly, Yellow Champ is all about keeping all your Spenders (Raging/Fury and Blade Wall as much as possible on cooldown, and managing your buffs simultaneously, this can take some practice but you will eventually get the hang of it. Cut Raging Blades Animation with Clobber always, if the encounter doesn’t require interrupts.
11. Here’s a video of Yellow Champ in action:

Consumables

There are the consumables I use on Champ:

1. Crafted 10s Horn. These are invaluable for Instances/Raids, your group will always ask for these, so keep them with you. (You can only use ones which say ‘Most effective against targets of your level or lower.’)
2. Fervour pots. These are great for the instant 5 Fervour and Dev Magnitude for big hits. I typically use them only while I’m heavily buffed or if there is an Oathbreakers on the boss.

This is the Food I use:

Updated as of U30.

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